Implementing EPER and PRTR in Hungary

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Implementing EPER and PRTR in Hungary
Ministry of Environment and Water Environmental
Deputy State Secretary Róbert RAKICS
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Aarhus Convention

• Aarhus Convention on access to information,
  public participation in decision-making and
  access to justice in environmental matters
• Art 5, 9.
• Each Party shall take steps to establish
  progressively, taking into account international
  processes where appropriate, a coherent,
  nationwide system of pollution inventories or
  registers on a structured, computerized and
  publicly accessible database compiled through
  standardized reporting.

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Pollutant Release and és Transfer Register (PRTR)

• UN-ECE Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer
  Register (PRTR)
• 21 May 2003, Kiev Ministerial Conference
  Environment for Europe
• signed by the EC, 15 Member States, 8 Accession
  Countries (including Hungary) and 13 others

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Joining the first EPER reporting

• 23 February 2004
• Launch event for EPER Reporting website at the
  European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen
• Hungary, as the first of the Accession countries,
  joined the EPER reporting.
• www.eper.cec.eu.int

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EPER differs from PRTR (1)

• EPER ? PRTR
• 50 pollutants 86 pollutants
• 56 activities 64 activities
• reporting every annual reporting
• 3 years

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EPER differs from PRTR (2)

• EPER ? PRTR
• releases to land
• off-site transfers of waste
• diffuse sources
• public participation in decision-making

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Hungarian EPER data

• 1000 IPPC facilities in Hungary
• 86 facilities in the first EPER reporting
• (18 combustion installations,
• 4-4 pulp and paper industry, basic organic
  chemicals industry and pharmaceutical industry
• )
• !!Data quality!!

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EPER-PRTR implementation strategy (1)

• Establishment of the PRTR system with
  step-by-step improvement of EPER in order to
  achieve high quality of emission data.
• Hungary intends to implement the PRTR in line
  with EUs development plan, ensuring thorough
  co-ordination with EU and its Member States.
• As a first step, data based on EPER Decision are
  considered as an initial PRTR and it is made
  publicly available. PRTR is planned to be further
  developed by the following steps

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EPER-PRTR implementation strategy (2)

• step 1, 2004
• Creation of a database meeting requirements laid
  down in EPER Decision
• step 2, 2005-2006
• Analysis of the options to extend EPER
• Development of EPER into EPER by including
  emissions to land as well as off-site transfer of
  wastes
• Working out changes in national law necessary for
  the EPER/PRTR system
• step 3, 2007-2008
• Implementation of a comprehensive EPER/PRTR
  system by upgrading EPER to complete list of
  pollutants, activities etc.

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Thank you for your attention!